This week, Applied Biosystems is announcing SOLiD 3, the second update for its platform this year. Also this week, Roches 454 Life Sciences is launching its Titanium reagents and consumables for its Genome Sequencer FLX. Meanwhile, Illumina said at a conference last week that read lengths and output of its Genome Analyzer II, which it launched earlier this year, will increase by the end of the year.